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This also was on Burn Baby Burn!  from yesterday burning calories. This was on Yahoo Shiine

Examples Always Prove the Point Better

Let’s take a look at an example. Using this calculator, a 30 year old woman, at 5’-6”, 150 pounds burns roughly 1476 total calories, if she were at rest all day long. Suppose on Christmas Eve she wakes up, and decides that she doesn’t want to work out. She spends her day doing light activity, getting herself ready, wrapping presents, watching some Christmas movies on TV, cooking, and baking. Then her family and friends arrive, and the rest of her night is spent socializing, eating, drinking and so on.

Her activity factor for the day would be around a 1.2, which would mean that her total burn for the whole day would be 1771 calories.

Now, let’s say she woke up and went to the gym for a 45 minute vigorous workout, did some stretching, got herself ready, ran some errands, came home to cook, but added in some jumping jacks, danced with the kids, and never really sat down until the company arrived. Her activity factor in this case would be around 1.725, which would make her total burn for the day approximately 2546 calories.

That is a difference of almost 800 calories! Try out this exercise for yourself using this formula. Take a few minutes and add up what you typically eat on Christmas or Christmas Eve…make sure to be honest….remember to include the wine too…and those cookies…the appetizers, all of it. Now do you see what a difference a little extra movement can make?

I hope this helps to give you the incentive to get out and move this holiday season. An exercise like this truly gives vacuuming or shoveling snow a whole new light, doesn’t it!

 This was on Shiine by Yahoo and looks good to me.  Burn, Baby Burn!  Let’s face it. Now is the time of year that you want to kick that calorie burn into high gear. We are neck deep in the holiday festivities, so we are all looking to get our metabolisms roaring, right? So how do you know what exercises and activities are going to give you the biggest bang for your calorie-burn buck? I have put together a list of various activities to give you an idea of how each affects your burn. Sitting still (aka at rest), most people expend roughly 1-2 calories per minute, depending on your body weight, sex, etc. I have included both activities that burn a lot of calories, and also a separate chart that shows activities that don’t burn very many. Use these charts as references so that you can get moving this season and burn off those extra goodies here and there that you want to enjoy along the way.Note: This chart is based on a 150-pound woman. Men and women weighing over 150 pounds will burn more calories during the same activities, and those that weigh less will burn less.

Source: http://www.caloriesperhour.comExtra Tips and Tricks To Get That Metabolism Roaring So now that you know what activities are more energy expensive, so to speak, you’ve still got to do what you’ve got to do, right? I mean, those presents are not going to wrap themselves.Here are a few ways to get in some extra activity and burn off a few more calories in the midst of getting things accomplished. A few of them are going to make you giggle, but trust me, you will be thanking me when you hop on that scale come January 1st and you have maintained or even LOST weight this season!·       Sets of 25 jumping jacks at commercial breaks while you are wrapping presents and watching “A Christmas Story” on TV. ·       Dance around the living room to holiday music with your kids. ·       Do wall sits while you are writing your grocery list. ·       Take the stairs at the mall rather than the escalator or the elevator. ·       Don’t sit down while you are talking to Aunt Thelma on the phone. Walk around the house in one giant circle. ·       After dinner don’t sit down to chat, bundle up and take the dog for a walk with a few family members. If you are in a warm weather climate (YAY for you!) head outside for a game of family flag football rather than sitting down to play cards.  

Resolve to improve.  It is January  2009 and most of us have resolved to lose weight this year.  Start now one step at a time.  The benefits of regular exercise are: Strengthen cardio and vascular systems, build stronger bones and muscles, manage weight better, prevent or  diabetes,manage pain and stress, ease depression or prevent depression,  better, reduce risk of certain diseases.  Start now.

   Consult your doctor to be sure you can participate in exercise and then do it.  Start slow and build from there.  A short walk is a start but remember the theme is regular exercise.                                                                                                                                          

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY ALL YOUIR RESOLUTINS COME TRUE. Dance the night away and get on shape.  Don’t forget the Hoodia Gordonii Plus.

No equipment workout means just that.  Just look around and find books, water bottles ot whatever you can to add a little weight.  Not much at first just a little more every frw days.  Books work good or water bottles, with water of coarse.  If you can’t think of any exercises just walk with the little added weight.  Soon you will come up with other exercises.  Maybe lunges or faster walking.  Don’t forget the Hoodia Gordonii Plus.

A Great Christmas Gift would be a membership in a health club, a magazine subscription or membership in the Biggest Loser Club.

 Some great Christmas gifts might be a gym membership or exercise equipment.  In a used sports equipment store the other day there was some great deals on like new machines.

This is on Women’s health and is very good.

Swiss Thigh And Fly

Works: chest, core, and inner thighs

Grab a pair of 8- to 10-pound dumbbells and lie on your back with your arms extended directly above your shoulders, palms facing in, and a stability ball between your legs. Keeping your legs straight, raise them so the bottoms of your feet face the ceiling (A). Keeping your elbows slightly bent, slowly lower the dumbbells out to the sides so they’re in line with your shoulders. At the same time, slowly lower the ball to within a few inches of the floor (B). Slowly raise the dumbbells and the stability ball back to start. That’s one rep. Do three sets of 12 to 15 reps, resting for 30 seconds between sets.

This is on Women’s Health and is very good.

Sumo squat and crunch.

Works: arms, core, and entire lower body

Standing with your legs wider than shoulder-width apart, hold a medicine ball in front of your body. Squat until your thighs are almost parallel to the floor (A). Keeping your right knee bent and rotating the hip so your inner thigh faces forward, stand up on your left leg and lift your right leg out until your knee is past your hip. At the same time, circle the ball clockwise until it’s above your right shoulder and crunch your upper body to the right (B). Return to start. Do 12 to 15 reps, then repeat on the other side. That’s one set. Do three, resting for 30 seconds between sets.

Trainer tip: Start with an 8-pound ball. Don’t up the weight until you’ve mastered the move with perfect form

This is on Women’s Health and is very good. 

Works: shoulders and core Grab a pair of 5- to 8-pound dumbbells and get in plank position with your hands on the weights directly below your shoulders and your palms facing each other (A). Brace your abs, and keeping your left arm straight, raise it in front of you to shoulder height (B). Return to plank, then repeat with your right arm. That’s one rep; do 12 to 15. Complete three sets, resting for 30 seconds between sets.